Saturday, April 20, 2013

Once the FBI learned the identities of the two brothers today, the FBI reviewed its records and determined that in early 2011, a foreign government asked the FBI for information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The request stated that it was based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country’s region to join unspecified underground groups.

In response to this 2011 request, the FBI checked U.S. government databases and other information to look for such things as derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans, and education history. The FBI also interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and family members. The FBI did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign, and those results were provided to the foreign government in the summer of 2011. The FBI requested but did not receive more specific or additional information from the foreign government.

Note that before 9-11 the Bush administration had no specific information on the individuals who attacked us. Here the Obama administration had the name and the association. If they had been paying attention they would have noted the trip to Russia to meet with the people in question. They could have followed him after his return and also check his online history.

Democrats continually attacked Bush for not stopping the 9-11 attacks. I predict they will not care about the Obama administration's failure. Obama and the FBI should be held accountable. I doubt they will be held any more accountable for this than Obama was for Benghazi.

Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the second of the brothers who planted the bombs at the Boston Marathon and destroyed the lives of many people there, has been captured by the police. This USA Today report says he became more observant of the Religion of Rape not too long ago (via Jihad Watch):

...Tamerlan occasionally commented on a certain alienation he felt in America. "I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them," he was quoted as saying in a photo package that appeared in a Boston University student magazine in 2010.

He identified himself then as a Muslim and said he did not drink or smoke: "God said no alcohol." He said he hoped to fight for the U.S. Olympic team and become a naturalized American.

As a boxer, he was known for his nerve. "He's a real cocky guy," said one trainer who worked with him, Kendrick Ball. He said the young man came to his first sparring session with no protective gear. "That's unheard of with boxing," Ball said. But he added: "In this sport, you've got to be sure of yourself, you know what I mean?"

More recently, Tamerlan - married, with a young daughter - became a more devout Muslim, according to his aunt, Maret Tsarnaeva. She told reporters outside her Toronto home Friday that the older brother had taken to praying five times a day.

Tamerlan attended Bunker Hill Community College in nearby Charlestown as a part-time student for three semesters from 2006 to 2008. He studied accounting.

Anzor Tsarnaev, said Dzhokhar is "a true angel" and "an intelligent boy." In subsequent media interviews, he said his sons had been framed for Monday's bombings.

Ruslan Tsarni, an uncle who had not spoken to his brother's sons since December 2005, urged Dzhokhar to turn himself in to authorities. Meeting with reporters Friday outside his home in Montgomery County, Md., Tsani said he believed the brothers may have been recently "radicalized."

Albrecht Ammon, 18, lived directly below the apartment of the two suspects. He said he recently saw Tamerlan in a pizzeria, where they argued about religion and U.S. foreign policy. He quoted Tsarnaev as saying that many U.S. wars are based on the Bible, which is used as "an excuse for invading other countries."

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is believed to have dropped a backpack laden with explosives at the site of Monday's second explosion. He was pictured wearing a white baseball cap in video images released by the FBI Thursday.

His page on the Russian social networking site Vkontakte says he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, graduating in 2011. He won a $2,500 college scholarship from the city of Cambridge. On the website, his world view is described as "Islam" and he says his personal goal is "career and money."

The parents, as seen here, are acting defensively and not willing to admit they could be at fault themselves, nor are they willing to come to terms with their son's guilt.

Oppressed, war-ravaged nations are the breeding ground for great warriors as well as evil terrorists, from Afghanistan to Palestine.

Dear dear dear. Furthering the lie the latter name was used for, I see.

Now that the man has been captured, they say the authorities are searching for his motivations. But the sad part is that, unless advocates of safety and freedom work hard to ensure an honest investigation, they're bound to follow political correctness.

Sirens wailed and church bells tolled in the city, where several hundred Jews battled the Nazis in World War II. About 13,000 Jews died in the ghetto when the Nazis reduced it to rubble. Survivors were sent to death camps.

Poland's president praised the Jews' "last stand" in a speech on Friday. "This was the last stand of people deprived of dignity and hope," Mr Komorowski said. "Hundreds of insurgents stood to defend the last remnants of human freedom."

In 1942, before the uprising, the Nazi SS deported about 300,000 Jews from the ghetto to the Treblinka camp, where they were murdered in gas chambers.

FOUND AT THE PEOPLE'S CUBE.WHY DO LEFTISTS THINK THAT CONSERVATIVE, TRADITIONAL-VALUE AMERICANS - WHO BELIEVE IN THE US CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS - HAVE AN IDEOLOGY THAT WOULD MOTIVATE TERROR, BUT THAT ISLAMISTS DO NOT?IT'S INSANE.

A CIVIL TRIAL THAT TREATS THE MARATHON ATTACK AS A CRIME - AND NOT AN ACT OF WAR - WILL LEAD TO MORE ATTACKS.PERHAPS ATTACKS AS FREQUENT HERE AS THEY ARE IN IRAQ. IOW: DAILY.IT WILL DO SO BECAUSE IT WILL AFFORD THE PERP RIGHTS THAT WILL INTERFERE WITH THOROUGH INTEL GATHERING.AND A THOROUGH ROOTING-OUT OF OTHERS HERE AND ABOARD WHO WOULD SEEK TO DO THE SAME IN ORDER TO INTIMIDATE US.THE "ISLAMO-TERROR IS A CRIME" APPROACH THAT CLINTON FAVORED AFTER THE 1992 WTC ATTACK AND THE USS COLE ATTACK AND THE AFRICAN EMBASSY ATTACKS FAILED.AND THIS FAILURE HELPED LEAD TO 9/11.BUSH'S MORE ROBUST "ISLAMO-TERROR IS WAR" APOPROACH KEPT US SAFER.WE HAVE BEEN ATTACKED MORE UNDER OBAMA 'S 5 YEARS THAN UNDER BUSH'S 8 YEARS.THE XMAS UNDERWEAR BOMBER AND THE TIMES SQ BOMBER WERE NOT FOILED; THEY FAILED. WE WERE LUCKY.FT HOOD WAS NOT "WORKPLACE VIOLENCE" AS OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES CLAIM.ALL THE ATTACKS DURING OBAMA'S TERMS SO FAR, AND ALL THE ATTACK DURING CLINTON'S TWO TERMS SHOULD HAVE BEEN HANDLED S BUSH HANDLED 9/11:AS WAR.AND IN WAR... WE HAVE TO DEFEND OURSELVES WITH OUR MOST EFFECTIVE TOOLS, NOT THE ONES THAT ARE THE LEAST DIFFICULT AND MOST POLITICALLY CORRECT.JUST SAYING...AND SO IS AMBASSADOR BOLTON; (VIDEO).

President Obama framed what comes next when he addressed the nation Friday night after police captured the 19-year-old.

“Obviously, there are still many unanswered questions,” he said. “Among them, why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence? How did they plan and carry out these attacks? And did they receive help?”

WE KNOW WHAT MOTIVATED THEM:ISLAMISM.HERE'S WHAT A REAL INVESTIGATION WOULD SEEK TO DISCOVER:

WHO HELPED THEM?

WHO FINANCED THEM?

WHO TRAINED THEM?

WHO WAS AWARE BEFOREHAND AND KEPT QUIET?

WHO KNEW AFTERWARDS AND KEPT QUIET?

WHY DID THE FBI DROP THE BALL IN 2011?

WHICH FOREIGN COUNTRY WANTED THE FBI TO INVESTIGATE THEM?

WHAT ROLE - IF ANY - DID AL HARBI PLAY IN THIS?

IS THERE A HOTBED OF ISLAMISM HIDDEN WITHIN THE COLLEGE THE YOUNGER BROTHER ATTENDED AND OTHER CELLS?

DID ANY PROFESSORS ENCOURAGE THEM BY TEACHING THEM AN ANTI-USA/ANTI-RUSSIA NARRATIVE FOR THE CHECHEN WARS?

SADLY, I DON'T HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT THE OBAMA APPOINTED US ATTORNEY OR THAT THE "PC" FBI WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS.

A move that would ultimately affect law-abiding citizens who are purchasing gunpowder for their own use, just as ‘gun free zones’ have been shown to allow for criminals to run amok due to the disarmament of the average citizen. Full-fledged terrorists simply will not submit to background checks to purchase gunpowder, especially when there are so many easier options.

THIS WAS PREDICTED IN A COMMENT POSTED TO DOZENS OF RIGHT-WING BLOG COMMENT THREADS - A COMMENT THAT WAS LARGELY RIDICULED.BUT WAS THE COMMENTER CORRECT?YOU DECIDE:

I work on a security commission and I’ve just received word to start on a campaign we’ve been working on for the last two months and now it all makes sense.

I’ll keep it as short can I can

They’re going to pin this event on a male late teens to early 20s and say he did it because he’s unstable.

They are going to find firearms and a NRA book in his home.

They are going to to say he used reloading powder for the explosion and that reloading powder shouldn’t be for sale to the public. They are then going to say that because the powder in ammunition can be used for explosions that the number of rounds you can buy should be limited and taxed to help pay for these events.

I can’t do anything or I’ll lose my job and possibly face criminals charges. Please don’t let them get away with it. They won’t find the suspect till later this week and the raid is issued to occur on Friday. This was a staged event. The people hurt are real but the event was planned. Don’t let them hurt our rights.

WELL… HE WAS ARRESTED FRIDAY AND NOW LAUTENBERG IS INTRODUCING THE ANTI-GUNPOWDER BILL!

JUST SAYING….

NOW - TO BE CLEAR: I DON'T THINK THAT THIS ATTACK WAS A FALSE FLAG ATTACK CARRIED OUT BY THE USG IN ORDER TO DISCREDIT THE RIGHT AND THE NRA AND "TAKE AWAY OUR GUNS AND GUNPOWDER".BUT IT SURE DOES SEEM LIKE THE LEFT IS ATTEMPTING TO EXPLOIT IT AS THEY DID NEWTOWN: IN ORDER TO ADVANCE THEIR LONG-HELD ANTI-GUN/ANTI-2ND AMENDMENT AGENDA.JUST AS THEY SEEK TO EXPLOIT EVERY MAJOR WEATHER EVENT TO ADVANCE THEIR LONG-HELD ANTI-FREE ENTERPRISE/ANTI-INDUSTRY AGENDA.WE MUSTN'T LET THEM SUCCEED.

(YOU KNOW WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT: THE CHIC DEGENRATI ON THE LEFT WHO FIGHT AGAINST McDONALD'S AND DISNEY AND NATO, BUT WHO DEFEND NON-ASSIMILATING IMMIGRANTS FROM THE THIRD WORLD WHO GO THERE TO COLONIZE.)

Tamerlan demonstrates a way of walking to strengthen the ankle muscles at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts center. A native of Chechnya, Tamerlan says: "In Russia, we used to train like this. Here nobody does it, I don't know why!"

Tamerlan says he doesn't drink or smoke anymore: "God said no alcohol." A muslim, he says: "There are no values anymore," and worries that "people can't control themselves."

Tamerlan says he doesn't usually take his shirt off so girls don't get bad ideas: "I'm very religious."

BOSTON – Signing up for the shaliah (emissary) gig in Beantown, Chabad Rabbi Mayer Zarchi probably never thought counseling victims of a terror attack would be part of his job requirements.

But with his headquarters located only a few blocks from the scene of the Boston Marathon bombing site this past Patriots Day, his office near Mass General Hospital where he is a chaplain become a spot frantic runners and spectators could call loved ones after the cellphone lines went down due to high volume.

“People needed help, and we were there to provide it,” Zarchi told The Jerusalem Post. [...]

“It was a beautiful day,” said Zarchi, reflecting. “Everybody was enjoying themselves. The Boston Marathon is one of the great national sporting events. But in a nanosecond, everything transformed.”

Mayshe Schwartz, Rabbi at Chabad Chai Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, told The Algemeiner that the community is still trying to come to terms with what happened, but that the incident must not shake people’s morale.

“We know whoever did do it wants to disrupt our freedom and our love of life. And the only response, when someone wants to take that away from you, is have more love of life and express more freedom and kindness at each other. That’s the only thing we can do right now.”

Rabbi Schwartz added that the Jewish community must remain strong and that it “cannot allow the fear that [the perpetrators] try to instill in us to manifest.”

True. Neither the Jewish community nor any other civilized society around the world can let that happen.

The search for one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects — the man seen wearing a white baseball cap — this morning led to the sudden shutdown of the MBTA’s entire network of commuter rail, bus, and subway services.

State authorities also asked people who live in Watertown, Waltham, Newton, Belmont, Cambridge, and Allston-Brighton to stay home and for businesses in those cities and towns to stay closed. …

The other Boston Marathon bombing suspect, the man seen wearing a black hat in photos released Thursday evening, is dead after firing bullets and launching explosives at police.

“We believe these are the same individuals that were responsible for the bombing Monday at the Marathon,’’ State Police Colonel Timothy Alben said today. “We believe that they are responsible for the death of an MIT police officer and the shooting of an MBTA police officer. This is a very serious situation that we are dealing with.’’

There is another revelation to consider: both suspects originally lived near Chechnya:

With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday after he and his accomplice robbed a 7-Eleven, shot a police officer to death, carjacked an SUV and hurled explosives out the window in an extraordinary firefight with law enforcement, authorities told NBC News.

The second suspect — the one in the white hat in photos released by the FBI — was on the loose, and police ordered people in the Boston suburb of Watertown to stay in their homes and businesses not to open. Boston shut down its buses and subway system for the hunt.

The suspects are brothers with the last name Tsarnaez, law enforcement officials told NBC News. The suspect on the loose is 19 and has a Massachusetts driver’s license, they said. Law enforcement officials told NBC News that both men had international ties, had been in the United States about a year and had military experience.

New Zealand becomes the first country in the Asia Pacific to legalise same sex marriage. The public gallery in parliament breaks into song following the vote, singing the traditional Maori love song Pokarekare Ana. New Zealand is now the 13th country to legalise gay marriage, after Uruguay passed its law earlier in April

HERE:

You may ask yourself why they would do this. It seems insane, and yet it fits so perfectly, right? That because it makes absolute sense:This is all about a return/regression to Paganism and Heathenism and Barbarity.It is concomitant with tattoos and piercings and abortion-on-demand, and X-rated displays during the halftime of the Super Bowl.IOW: The End of Civilization.LET'S FACE IT: WHAT HISTORY REFLECTS IS THAT MOST PEOPLES WITHOUT THE BIBLE WERE SAVAGES.That's what the chic degenerati who passed the law in New Zealand were celebrating with song: the return to savagery.

... the Chinese government openly begins to speculate about the possibility of human-to-human transmission of the H7N9 bird flu strain, an international team of experts, including some from the World Health Organization, have been deployed to investigate the disease in the country.

JERUSALEM - An Israeli military court sentenced a Palestinian American teenager Wednesday to two weeks in prison for throwing rocks at Israeli forces, the military said, in a case that has drawn attention to Israel's system of military detention of Palestinian minors.

Israel's military said a juvenile military court convicted Mohammad Khalek, 14, of throwing stones, along with other Palestinians, at Israeli security forces April 2. It said Khalek confessed to the stone-throwing and reached a plea bargain for a fine of about $830 and a total of 31 days in jail, including the time he was held awaiting sentencing.

The parents can be blamed, of course, but then, even the teenager himself has to look at himself in the mirror, and also stop buying into all that propaganda that even the AP Wire is pushing.

ASIDE: WITH APPLE CRASHING 5% YESTERDAY (ON THE HEELS OF NEWS THAT PC SALES SUCK, AND NEWS THAT HIRING SUCKS AND CHINA'S GROWTH HAS BEEN CUT IN HALF), I THINK THE CRASH IS COMING SOONER THAN ANYONE THINKS.

Steve Emerson told on Fox that the Saudi national who was questioned about the bombing at the marathon this week is being deported on security grounds.

This is troubling because it turns out the Saudi whose name is al-Harbi has connections with jihadists as well as friends in high positions. It appears the Obama administration is trying to keep the House of Saud happy, which is troubling.

U.S. law enforcement officials said Tuesday that a Saudi national injured in the Boston Marathon bombing is regarded as a witness, not a suspect.

The Saudi, who is recuperating at a Boston hospital, is in his 20s and is in the United States on a Saudi scholarship to study at a university in the Boston area.

The federal officials’ explanation echoed comments by a Saudi official at the country’s embassy in Washington. The embassy official said that a Saudi national has been questioned as a witness but is not regarded as a suspect. The Saudi official cited information provided to the embassy by U.S. law enforcement officials.

“We’re not aware of any Saudi suspect or Saudi person of interest,” said the Saudi official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the preliminary nature of the information.

He declined to identify the young man, but said he sustained serious burn injuries. The official said the victim is cooperating with U.S. investigators and granted permission for his Boston area apartment to be searched.

Islam Is A Religion Of Peace Boston Marathon Attack Edition

From an Anonymous commenter:I couldn't watch the press conference beyond a few moments. Revealing nothing, not even admitting it was a terror attack, the FBI spokesperson was deliberate in his message, and was closely intensely watched over his left shoulder by an individual who relaxed only after this spokesperson clarified that there were only 2 devices (not the five reported on several msm/websites earlier). I walked out of the room when this spokesperson mentioned "interfaith" service . . .deceptively revealing.

Through four weeks, prosecutors have laid out evidence against Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion provider on trial on charges of killing seven viable fetuses by “snipping” their necks with scissors and of causing the death of a pregnant 41-year-old woman during a procedure.

The grisly details drew mainly local attention. But after an online furor that the case was being ignored by the national news media because of troubling accounts of late-term abortions, reporters from major newspapers and television networks descended Monday on the Court of Common Pleas. It was the latest example of the power of social media

SO: ALL YOU LEFT-WING WATER-CARRIERS WHO TRIED TO SAY THAT IT WAS COVERED: STFU.

A day of joy ripped apart. Death. Blood. Panic. Images like those from a war. And yes, that familiar word burned in our minds more than a decade ago, a word we wished we could forget: terror.

That is what the Federal Bureau of Investigation has labeled Monday’s bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon, and it is the only word that can sensibly be used to describe explosions designed to kill, maim and cause widespread havoc.

The Saudi Arabian man who is reportedly in police custody following the Boston Marathon bombing was chased and tackled by bystanders shortly after the blast, according to CBS.

Senior correspondent John Miller, a former assistant director of the FBI, reported this:

There is an individual in custody … he is not free to go.

He is a Saudi national who was near the scene of the blast. When the blast happened he began to run. Now, in context, a lot of people began to run. A civilian who thought he was acting suspiciously chased him down and tackled him and then turned him over to Boston police, saying, I saw this guy hanging around over there acting suspiciously. And then he ran. That may mean a lot, it may mean nothing at all.

Following the twin blasts at the Boston Marathon that has claimed two lives and dozens injured, a Saudi national is being held in custody in relation to the incident who was near the scene of the blast, CBS News correspondent John Miller reported.

Law enforcement sources told Miller a witness saw a person acting suspiciously when the explosions happened along the marathon route.

"They see him running away from the device," said Miller. "Now, a reasonable person would be running away. But this person had noticed him before. This is a civilian -- chases him down, tackles him, turns him over to the Boston police. The individual is being looked at [and] was suffering from burn injury. That means this person was pretty close to wherever this blast went off, but not so close as to suffer the serious injuries that other people did."

Authorities told Miller that the person in custody is not charged and not under arrest. He is being cooperative, answering their questions, and denying involvement. They'll likely be going over this person's communications and examine every aspect of his life, as well as talk to the witness who tackled him to find out what the person of interest did that seemed suspicious.

"So if that individual pans out that," said Miller, "that of course,it gives the case a big jump forward. If not, then they're back to physical evidence, forensics, witnesses, and whatever they can pick up on those surveillance cameras."

Why did he run and not seek medical help on the spot? I think that's very legitimate grounds for concern, and they shouldn't try to say the suspect isn't under arrest, where there could be a lot of good reason to keep him in custody.

Monday, April 15, 2013

BBC: World-renowned Turkish pianist Fazil Say has been given a suspended 10-month jail sentence for insulting Muslim values. An Istanbul court found Say guilty over a series of posts on the social networking site Twitter. Say was not in court for the sentencing. But he denied the charges, saying they were politically motivated. The case renewed concern about the influence of religion on politics in Turkey.

THE SENTENCE IS NOT IMPORTANT.

WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS THAT THE CHARGE AND CONVICTION SEND A CHILLING MESSAGE TO OTHER TURKISH NON-ISLAMIST/SECULARISTS.

THAT WAS THE REAL PURPOSE OF CHARGING FAZIL SAY, AND THE REAL REASON FOR CONVICTING HIM AND SENTENCING HIM.

TO SEND A MESSAGE.

A FASCIST MESSAGE.

AN ISLAMOFASCIST MESSAGE.

TURKEY IS PROOF THAT IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHETHER A MUSLIM NATION TAKES A FAST ROAD TO ISLAMISM - LIKE EGYPT SINCE OBAMA WAS ELECTED, OR A SLOW ROAD - LIKETURKEY SINCE ERDOGAN WAS ELECTED.ISLAMISM IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH SECULARISM AND PLURALISM - AND THEREFORE DEMOCRACY.THE SOONER WE IN THE WEST ACCEPT THIS... THE BETTER.THE DELUSION THAT ISLAMISM CAN CO-EXIST WITH THE WEST INTERFERES WITH OUR ABILITY IT DEFEND OURSELVES AND LETS THE ENEMY CONTINUE TO GAIN STRENGTH.UPDATE: A DAY LATER AND INSTAPUNDIT WEIGHS IN:

BARBARIC: Turkish Pianist Sentenced for Twitter Postings. ” court here handed down a suspended 10-month prison term on Monday for Fazil Say, an internationally acclaimed Turkish pianist and composer convicted of insulting Islam and offending Muslims in postings on Twitter. . . . In recent years, many intellectuals, writers and artists have been prosecuted for statements about Islam and Turkish identity, both of which the pro-Islamic government seeks to shield from criticism. Social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, however, have rarely figured in previous trials, although Turks are active users of the sites.”Posted at 10:41 am by Glenn Reynolds

Two explosions at the Boston marathon are believed to have killed at least 12 people. According to eyewitness, "mass casualties" are being reported after two powerful explosions detonated in quick succession near the famed marathon's finishing line. Boston Police are currently perfomring a controlled explosion on a suspicious item found just blocks away from the bomb site in Boston.

It has yet to be confirmed whether or not the explosion is part of a terrorist attack, but dozens of people are known to be injured. The explosions were heard near the finish line in the Fairmount Copley Plaza Hotel.

Police have found unexploded devices in the area and are conducting security controlled explosions, according to the Boston Globe.

BUT WHEN THEY THINK THE CRIME FITS THEIR AGENDA,THEY GO FULL STEAM AHEAD - AS WITH TRAYVON MARTIN. THAT STORY TOOK OFF WHEN THE MSM ASSUMED THE PERP WAS WHITE.

BY SELECTIVELY REPORTING CRIME CASES - ESPECIALLY SENSATIONAL ONES LIKE GOSNELL'S - THE MEDIA PROVES THEY ARE BIASED AND BASICALLY NOT REPORTING BUT DOING PROPAGANDA.

THE GOSNELL CASE PROVES THAT RACISM IS A MAJOR ISSUE DRIVING THEIR DECISION-MAKING PROCESS:

IF THEY THINK A STORY WILL STRENGTHEN THE LIBERAL RACE-AGENDA, THEN THEY RUN WITH IT.

IF THEY THIN IT WILL HURT THEIR RACIST AGENDA, TEN THEY BURY IT.THEY BURIED GOSNELL BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK.IF HE WAS WHITE, THEN WOULD HAVE RUN WITH THE STORY AS AN INSTANCE OF WHITE GENOCIDE AGAINST BLACKS.

Today we are at a point where history and facts must be “erased” and rewritten, because truth is racist-Islamophobic-anti-Muslim bigotry. Historical revisionism has taken on a new life, as history is scrubbed and manufactured Muslim myths are presented as fact.

Pioneering historian Bat Ye’or recently visited the British Museum and found that “Palestinian propaganda and its cohorts of EU bowdlerizing troops have also visited the Museum – which is why all the information notes pertaining to the artifacts that mention the history of the Kingdoms of Judea and Israel now also mention the word “Palestine” – even 3,000 years B.C. – while the name was only given to the land in 135 A.D. by Roman Emperor Hadrian when he incorporated it into the Roman Empire.”

This is beyond depressing; it’s shocking. The “Big Lie” Nazi-esque narrative has been thrust upon every corner of culture, education and “dialogue” in the weak and subdued West. There is no escape from this Islamic imperialism. Shariah enforcement extends far beyond the obvious attempts to silence critics of jihad and Shariah. The scrubbing of the 270 million victims of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations and enslavements from academic texts has been going on for well over a decade. The demonization and smearing of politicians who dare speak against the most extreme and radical ideology on the face of the earth is virtually automatic at this point, as is the self-enforcing Shariah compliance of the mainstream media. And now, history itself is being rewritten.

There is no “historical” Palestine – it’s Israel. The Romans wanted to punish the Jews after their defeat at Masada in the first century. The Roman emperor Hadrian meant to erase the name of Israel and Judah, so that there would be no memory of the country that belonged to that Jewish people. He wanted a name that would humiliate the Jews, and found that in an extinct people called the “Philistines,” the enemies of the Israelites.

Some things never change – but it is fitting that the namesake of today’s “Palestinians” is the Philistines. And they do indeed mirror the savagery of that ancient and now-extinct people.

Nor is the British Museum alone. 1001 Muslim Inventions, a traveling museum exhibit, has appeared all over the West to huge acclaim. (A half-million visitors attended it in Los Angeles alone.) It has indoctrinated hundreds of thousands of children into a rosy and romanticized view of Islam that makes them less appreciative of their own culture’s achievements and more complacent about Islamization in the West.

Definitely disturbing, and needs to be countered whereever it's being displayed. That's another something I hope Geller will bring up in her next conferences.

British intellectuals have gone anti-Semitic. Today you won't find a single Quixotic writer in the UK who would openly defend the State of Israel and its people. It is the debacle of the entire British cultural elite, a kind of ideological conformism like that in the Soviet Union, which Czeslaw Milosz called "the Captive Mind".

Famous UK author Iain Banks just announced that his novels would no longer be published in Israel. “I support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign because, especially in our instantly connected world, an injustice committed against one, or against one group of people, is an injustice against all, against every one of us; a collective injury,” Banks stated in The Guardian daily.

“My particular reason for participating in the cultural boycott of 'Israel' is that, first of all, I can; I’m a writer, a novelist, and I produce works that are, as a rule, presented to the international market,” underlined the best selling novelist.

Banks belongs to a long list of British writers who proclaim the sentence to death on the Jewish State and its people. It is impossible to keep a list of writers and poets who have endorsed Israel's elimination: Kevin Cadwallender, Jimmy Powdrell Campbell, Jenny Diski, Alison Fell, Naomi Foyle, Ian Gregson, Sarah Irving, Fred Johnstone, Wendy Klein, Diane Langford, Tom Leonard, Catherine Lupton...

And the list goes on and on. But at least I can save a load of money on their output, which probably didn't have much going for it anyway.

Remembrance Day ceremonies were held across Israel on Monday following a two-minute siren sounded at 11 am in honor of the country's fallen soldiers.

The number of Israelis who fell while in the line of duty stands at 23,085 on April 15.

"Look around you at the wonder called 'the State of Israel': Newly built Jerusalem, vibrant Tel Aviv, flourishing Haifa, the Negev and Galilee which are in a new momentum, and the whole State of Israel, which is a sun-lit island of stability and progress in a darkened, boiling, raging space," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during the main State ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

"Our success has been achieved thanks to you, citizens of Israel. From the days of the founders, through the generations which have continued to build and create and until our own generation.

"We'll always remember – the Day of Independence we celebrate annually was achieved thanks to our fighters – those who survived the battles and those who gave their lives. With tearful eyes and a proud heart, we salute the fallen, our beloved, the heroes of Israel," he said.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon honored Israel's fallen soldiers at a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery in Tel Aviv on Monday, saying that while Israel will always extend its hand for peace, it is forced into war by those who refuse to recognize the Jewish state's existence.

"There are still more than a few groups that refuse to recognize our right to a national Jewish home in the land of Israel in whichever borders, and we are forced to fight back in order to defeat their intentions," Ya'alon stated.

Ya'alon said that over time, the threats against Israel had not lessened, but only changed.

"Terror attacks, firing rockets on the civilian population and the delegitimiazation campaign are challenges before us in recent years that will accompany us in the foreseeable future as well, forcing us to respond aggressively," he said.

Ya'alon also addressed the Iranian nuclear threat saying that, "a nuclear program of a state that praises hatred of Jews and the destruction of Israel is being given life as we speak. If it is not dealt with appropriately, it will threaten Israel, the Middle East and the whole world."

The defense minister added that the world must never "sweep the Iranian nuclear problem under the rug," because history has shown that a lack of perseverance on such matters is a recipe for future tragedy.

Satmar Rebbe Aaron Teitelbaum this week lashed out at attempts to draft yeshiva students and advance an equal share of the burden in Israel, calling them "a decree worse than the annihilation of the Jewish people."

He went on to accuse the supporters of the move of being "worse than those who murdered us."

The rabbi made the remarks on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is unlikely, however, that he was aware that Israel was commemorating the memory of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis that day.

That makes no difference. What he said to his followers is offensive in the extreme, and goes against the Torah's belief in the wonders of living.

He said that those working to draft yeshiva students were actually seeking to "cause us to leave religion."

A big lie since there's plenty of pious people in the army as it is.

"A black cloud is hanging these days over our brothers, the people of Israel living in the Holy Land," the rabbi said. "A malicious government has convened… and is seeking to uproot the Torah.

Yes, a shadow government run by the Satmar has formed a black cloud made from hats and suits within the space of a conference center/synagogue that hangs like a thorn in the side of its bloodbrothers over in Israel. And that awful cloud seeks to uproot the Torah and rewrite all the values we hold dear. "Oy gevalt" would not be enough to describe just how terrible a situation the Satmar are. They don't even deserve citizenship here. Any Satmar member who sides with such vile sentiments Teitelbaum expresses should not even venture into this country. And neither should he. To think, that such an awful man would preach and prefer cowering in ghettos to defending the nation against those who seek to destroy it. A major fiasco of a community they are.